Maxis released The Sims 4 update 2.15 on December 2 across PC, Mac, and consoles, shipping build PC: 1.120.111.1030 / Mac: 1.120.117.1030 and Console: Version 2.25. The patch pairs a large set of bug fixes with a new Creator Kit schedule and a SpongeBob tie-in arriving in early December.
The update confirms the upcoming Creator Kit Prairie Dreams by Miiko will arrive on December 11, 2025. It also lists SpongeBob’s House Kit and SpongeBob Kid’s Room Kit arriving December 4, 2025 and a Bikini Bottom Bundle that bundles both kits and three exclusive items available from December 4, 2025 through March 3, 2026. Alongside new content, Maxis emphasizes fixes aimed at top community-reported bugs as part of their commitment to regularly fix top voted community issues. The patch touches both base game systems and a long list of pack-specific edge cases.
Bug Fixes
Base Game
- [EA Forums] Child, Teen, Young Adult, Adult, and Elder Sims will once again no longer have clothing visible under their privacy mosaic. However, the cause of the issue is different for other ages, and we’re still investigating those instances to hopefully fix in an upcoming update.
- [EA Forums] The Nature Soundscapes radio station will no longer wake up Sims when they listen to it while sleeping.
- [EA Forums] Teens will retain their active Aspiration (so long as it is not a ‘Teen-specific’ Aspiration) when they age up into a Young Adult.
- [EA Forums] The Arrrmed Living Chair had a duplicate color swatch. We didn’t want to remove a swatch, because that might break existing builds, so we decided to change one of those swatches to be a new variant. When choosing what color to go with, the artist thought this piece of furniture might nicely match some of the Enchanted by Nature furniture in style. But it felt odd to add just one swatch, so we added an additional two other variants, but then realized the Arrrmed Living Chair was part of a set, and we probably wanted those three new variants to match other pieces of furniture from Base Game—takes a breath—so in total there are at total of 27 new free swatches (9 objects with three new variants each). Here’s a list of the updated furniture pieces. Enjoy! (We know Princess Cordelia would!)
- Arrrmed Living Chair
- Deep Delight Living Chair
- Cuttlefish Love Seat
- Cuttlefish Sofa
- Arrrmed Dining Chair
- Captain Rodrigo de Pablo Dining Chair
- Arrrmless Dining Chair
- Cephalopod Bar Stool with Back Support
- Cephalopod Bar Stool
- [EA Forums] The Main Menu will no longer show “WWWWWW” when there isn’t an active Household to display on the Main Menu.
- [EA Forums] Sims will once again change into their outfits in front of Toddler Sims.
- [EA Forums] We fixed an issue where Moodlets and Quirk notifications could occur for a Young Adult Sim.
- [EA Forums] We fixed some texture issues with the IndustryMatters Brick Facade with Wood Trim wallpaper when applied to wall corners for two of the wallpaper’s variants.
- Sims without the Horse Ranch Expansion Pack were able to get a Fear of Horses, but this can no longer happen.
- Good and Evil Sims will no longer mourn excessively at gravestones.
Multiple Packs
- [EA Forums] We fixed an instance of Save Corruption that was resulting in Error Code 109:4fe45107:239aa048. In the save we received, there was a Clone Sim that had a Household status set incorrectly in our code. We fixed it so if a Household is in this state it will no longer crash the game upon trying to load the game. If this error happens in other ways, new save files shared with us will be beneficial in uncovering the cause. (Business & Hobbies, Get to Work)
- [EA Forums] We fixed an issue where sand sculptures were auto-generating on beaches when it rained a lot. This is still occurring if the Weather Machine is used by the player, but we have a fix planned for that instance in an upcoming patch. (Island Living, Seasons)
- [EA Forums] We made a change that allows gates with lanterns to have the lanterns light up the area around them. This should now work for the following gates:
- Spanish Inquisition (Base Game)
- Woodn’t You Like to Know (Base Game)
- Maiden’s Gate (Base Game)
- Barn Door Double (Cats & Dogs)
- Cozy Craftsman Gate (Seasons)
- [EA Forums] Sims who dislike Mischief or Singing will no longer autonomously do mischievous behaviors or sing. (Base Game, City Living)
- [EA Forums] The Police Station, Foxbury Commons, and other work computers are now fixable after they’ve broken. (Get to Work, University, and More)
- [EA Forums] The Tomarani Introduction will now fulfill the Greet Co-Worker task in the Doctor Career. (Get to Work, For Rent)
- Fixed an issue with Temporary Stays where certain Sims couldn’t be invited to stay over from a Residential Rental lot. (Growing Together)
City Living
- [EA Forums] Sims in the Social Media Career will now automatically meet their Coworkers so that they can perform certain Work From Home tasks. This fix will only occur on fresh saves.
Cats & Dogs
- [EA Forums] We fixed a situation where it looked like you couldn’t have more than 7 Sims in a Household. This was because the Household had an empty Sim slot “reserved” for an “Adopt a Cat” story arc that the player couldn’t know was happening in the background. This story arc will now just wait until there is an available household slot and not prevent the addition of new members to the Household in the meantime.
- [EA Forums] We added timing restrictions on how often a Pet can autonomously explore the PooHoo Bush to every 3 days. Doing this causes them to get sick and it was previously happening too frequently.
- Sims will no longer receive a text from their Pet about missing curfew.
Seasons
- [EA Forums] Sims are now able to travel between World/Lots without the Seasons screen popping up.
- [EA Forums] Children and Teens can now donate on a Computer when in the Scouts Afterschool Activity.
Get Famous
- The “Attend Drama Club” interaction is now available as a Self-interaction and on other Household members when a Teen Sim is at max level in Drama Club and has left for rehearsal. This interaction will remain for 1 hour 30 minutes (in-game time) afterwards to allow the player time to select it.
Cottage Living
- Added a shadow to the Cottage Living pack icon.
High School Years
- [EA Forums] The Corndog food object is no longer using a block model (which appeared as invisible in Live Mode). This also fixes the related issue where it didn’t appear in preview UI images.
Growing Together
- [EA Forums] We rebalanced the Mental Fog Moodlet to appear after 3-4 days of running the Work Hard career tone. It used to appear after 1-2 days of doing this.
For Rent
- [EA Forums] Lines will no longer appear on Sims’ arms while wearing either the shirts (yfTop_EP15StackedPocketShirt or ymTop_EP15StackedPocketShirt) if nails are also equipped.
Lovestruck
- [EA Forums] Male Gallery Sims will no longer have high-pitched voices. Their correct voice tone will be used. This fix is not retroactive and will only affect future saves going forward.
Life & Death
- [EA Forums] Made progress on Children being taken away despite not being neglected. More investigation is required before we mark this one as fully resolved.
- [EA Forums] House Parties and Spooky Parties have been added as viable options for the Bucket List goal “I want to throw the most bizarre costume party of all time!”
- [EA Forums] Ghost Sims will no longer appear as a regular, living Sims while in the Reaper Career attempting to collect souls.
- [EA Forums] The Mentor Coworker interaction is available on a Co-Worker while they are performing “Practice Reaping” on the training dummy.
- The “Ingest Ambrosia” interaction is now available to Ghost Sims in the Reaper Career.
Businesses & Hobbies
- [EA Forums] We fixed an instance of Save Corruption that was resulting in Error code: 123:b378c837: In this Save, a Sim was dead, a ghost, and min LOD (Not actively engaged with by the player), which was causing some code around Small Business careers to crash the game on load. We made it so that if a Sim is referenced in this situation the game will not crash when trying to load.
- [EA Forums] The Stucko’s Top Stucco Wallpaper now extends fully to the floor when applied.
- [EA Forums] We added a missing purple variant color swatch to 8 doors and windows.
- Lang’s Door
- Double Arched Nordhaven-Style Door
- Single Nordhaven-Style Door
- Arched Nordhaven-Style Window
- Nordhaven-Style Portal Window
- Nordhaven-Style Cottage Window
- Nordhaven-Style Window
- Nordhaven-Style Glass Block Window
Adventure Awaits
- [EA Forums] Pre-made Custom venues will now display and execute their pre-made schedules. This means when you load into a pre-made Custom Venue, you will now see the proper schedules and gameplay. This was previously only working on our internal builds due to some code that needed changes. This is fixed in existing saves so long as the venue’s schedule hasn’t been edited already by the player. This doesn’t fully address the EA Forums thread, which mentions “Custom Venues not saving roles” but makes substantial progress towards the goal of fixing it fully.
- [EA Forums] The jacket (cfTop_EP20PulloverLayered) is now tagged as a Masculine style choice option.
- [EA Forums] All Adventure Awaits Toddler and Child hairstyles are now visible if you remove the Masculine/Feminine Style choice filters.
- [EA Forums] The Gran Gran’s Flannel Curtain rods were using a different shader than the curtain set, but we’ve updated them to use the same shader. This was done on purpose since curtains and solid objects use different shaders, but in this case, it caused a difference in some lighting scenarios which made the objects look like they were different colors.
- The jacket (ymTop_EP20FleeceCurve) was missing fashion choice tags. These have been added.
Vampires
- Non-Vampire Sims will no longer autonomously eat Plasma Fruit Salad.
Realm of Magic
- [EA Forums] All variant textures display the logo of the bottle properly on the Classic Apothecary Cabinet.
My Wedding Stories
- [EA Forums] We fixed an issue where the “Exchange Vows” interaction could become greyed out on the Wedding Arch even though the necessary Sims were present for the ceremony.
Paranormal
- The Terrified and Scared Emotions are now available in Sim Stats.
Greenhouse Haven
- The AirCycler fan will no longer disappear when viewed from a different floor than the floor the player is currently on.
Autumn Apparel
- [EA Forums] Fingernails will no longer clip through the gloves (yfAcc_GlovesSP69Leather asset).
The patch also covers many pack-specific corrections for City Living, Cats & Dogs, Seasons, Get Famous, Cottage Living, High School Years, Growing Together, For Rent, Lovestruck, Life & Death, Businesses & Hobbies, Adventure Awaits, Vampires, Realm of Magic, My Wedding Stories, Paranormal, Greenhouse Haven, and Autumn Apparel. Examples include fixing a corndog model in High School Years and restoring the Tomarani Introduction for Doctor Career tasks.
For context on recent fixes and follow-up patches, see the coverage of The Sims 4 update 2.17 and the developer discussion after creators left the EA creator network in that report. Players should see the update available via their platform’s launcher or storefront. If problems persist, Maxis recommends sharing save files and reports on official forums and the Sims Discord so fixes can target remaining edge cases.
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The Sims 4
Developed by The Sims Studio, Maxis
Unleash your imagination and create a unique world of Sims that's an expression of you! Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes, and much more with The Sims 4. Life, and Sims, are yours to control. Customize your unique Sims, design their homes & take them on wild adventures through celebdom, romance, holidays and more.
- Genre: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator
- Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One
- Modes: Single player
- Release: 2014-09-02
- Publisher: Electronic Arts
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Age Rating:
USK 6 / CLASS_IND 12 / CERO C / GRAC 15+ / ACB M / PEGI 12 / ESRB T
- IGDB Rating: 72.8/100
